T.V. Soong

Tse-ven Soong (4 December 1894-26 April 1971) was Premier of the Republic of China from 25 September to 4 December 1930 and from 31 May 1945 to 1 March 1947.

Biography
Tse-ven Soong was born in Shanghai, Qing China in 1894, and he graduated from Harvard before returning to China, where he became a pivotal supporter of Chiang Kai-shek. He was responsible for the financial administration in the National Government, introducing a finance reform, establishing the Central Bank of China in Guangzhou, and financing the Northern Expedition. A supporter of cooperation with the Communist Party of China against the Japanese, his financing skills were constantly outstripped by Chiang's need for increasing military spending. As Chiang's representative to the USA during World War II and as Premier from 1945 to 1947, he secured many substantial loans from the United States, though much of that money went into his own pocket. He retired to the USA in 1949 as one of the richest people in the world. He died in San Francisco in 1971 at the age of 76.